-erie

Influenced by French -erie.

-erie

1. Alternative spelling of -ery (“place”).
2. Obsolete spelling of -ery in other senses.

From Old French -erie. By surface analysis, -ier +‎ -ie.

• IPA^(key): /(ə).ʁi/

-erie f (plural -eries)

1. denotes a shop selling a certain product

   ‎bijou (“jewel”) + ‎-erie → ‎bijouterie (“jeweler's”)

2. denotes an organization specializing in a given field

   ‎huile (“oil”) + ‎-erie → ‎huilerie (“oil refinery”)

3. denotes an object used to perform an action

   ‎souffler (“to blow”) + ‎-erie → ‎soufflerie (“blower”)

4. denotes nouns describing qualities or properties

   ‎tricher (“to cheat”) + ‎-erie → ‎tricherie (“cheating”)

• -eri, -eriȝe, -ery, -erye, -re, -ri, -rie, -ry, -rye

Borrowed from Old French -erie. Some Middle English uses are new formations from -er +‎ -ie.

• IPA^(key): /-(ə)riː(ə)/

-erie

1. Forms nouns denoting an art, craft, or practice.
2. Forms nouns denoting the place where a practice is done.
3. Forms nouns a group or collective.

• English: -ery, -ry
• Scots: -ery, -ry

• “-e)rīe, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From -ier + -ie.

-erie

1. used to form feminine nouns

-erie f

1. alternative form of -ărie